Speaker
Zechariah Gelzer
(University of Iowa)
Description
We are studying the SU(3) gauge theory with 12 staggered fermions, searching for the endpoint of the line of first-order phase transitions in the mass-beta plane. This endpoint plays an important role in our understanding of the phase diagram of this model. Having found this endpoint with high statistics on a small lattice using unimproved staggered fermions, we are working to find it on larger lattices with improved actions. For an action improved with nHYP-smeared staggered fermions, we discuss the effect of slowly turning off the improvement on the broken shift symmetry phase.
Primary author
Zechariah Gelzer
(University of Iowa)
Co-authors
Prof.
Anna Hasenfratz
(University of Colorado Boulder)
Yannick Meurice
(University of Iowa)
Dr
Yuzhi Liu
(University of Colorado Boulder)
